Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred Hitchcock

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

Billy Crystal

I was a film-directing major at NYU. I'm still not sure why I became a directing major, when I was really an actor and a comedian, but there was something that drew me to doing that.

Akira Kurosawa

Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.

Billy Wilder

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

Jean Renoir

A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

Mathieu Amalric

I directed three films and each time [I act] I hope it's the last time so I have time to do my film [directing].

Stephen Frears

I teach film directing, inasmuch as you can. Its not really possible to teach film direction, but I sit there as a sort of testimony of experience and know-how, I suppose.

Stanley Kubrick

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

Stanley Kubrick

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

Jessica Hagedorn

It's not just NYU. There are days when I feel like I'm stranded in some upscale mall in Pasadena. Don't even get me started on the insidious transformation of Bleecker Street!

Ashley Bell

I come from a theater background. I studied acting at NYU and also the Groundlings in L.A.

Skeet Ulrich

I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore.

Lady Gaga

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

Rory Bremner

Most Scots might be able to identify six vegetables - but only two MSPs. There are parts of Scotland where you rarely get more than 40% turnout at the polls. There's a big disconnect there, and I think comedians bridge that gap.

Carl Reiner

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

Bill Burr

I'm a standup comedian who gets to act. I'm never going to not do standup. I love doing it and when I go through periods where I'm doing a lot of acting work, I still do standup.

Bill Burr

Comedians have the ability to feel other emotions.

Erick Dampier

That's what comedians do, comedians talk a lot. I laugh at it, too. He's never hung out with me. I don't even know him. So I can say anything about him, and he can say anything about me.

Erick Dampier

That's what comedians do. Comedians talk a lot.

Bill Cosby

I wish that every new and young comedian would understand what Richard was about and not confuse his genius with his language usage.

Julie Brown

I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons.

Greg Behrendt

I was always funny, but I wasn't a great musician, and I wanted to be a musician way more than I wanted to be a comic. I just didn't think comedians were cool when I was a kid.